Nickel and Dimed Ch.2

The Author Next stopping place in her Nickel and Dimed experiment was Maine. She chose Maine because of the opportunity. She had been there on a shopping trip and noticed everyone from a cab driver to a college professor was white, and they all spoke English. Therefore that meant it would be easier for her to find a job there. In her words, she chose Maine for "its whiteness". On her shopping trip there she had noted several places of job employment chances. A local tv news station wanted people to interveiw for telemarketing jobs. She selected a small motel to live in for 59$ a night. She talks about the questions she is asked during her interviews and she makes them seem like dumb questions. All the right answers should be very blunt and obvious. She finnally gets her job as a dietary aide. She thought it sounded technical but it was pretty casual. She got to wear her own cloths and things like that. She even liked that she didnt she have to bring lunch because they just got to eat the left overs of their customers. She talks about how she helps the people choose their diets and things like that. Later in the chapter she goes on a rant about healthcare. And how it isnt fair and things like that. She explains how disgusting a maids job is too. How they slosh around room temperature water just spread the germs instead of kill them. She was upset when she found out her apartment was 200$ for the month instead of 120$ because it was still considered tourist season. She described her phone calls with the food voucher people as quite a mess. But she ended up saving money on a dinner and a meal. She called in sick one day and then the following sunday returned her uniforms and told her ex-co workers to tell their boss whatever they wanted for reason of leaving.